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Using evidence to make informed decisions is an essential part of providing the right services; Nancy Hey looks at the wider lessons to be learned from a recent review of the evidence about the effectiveness of music therapy.

A new report for Lloyds Bank Foundation has found a commissioning process that is excluding smaller charities and consequently struggling to provide the services that are needed to the people that need them. Paul Streets explains.

And what can local government do about it? Post Brexit, post Trump is politics broken? For politics as we know it, the short answer is yes, politics is broken. I believe in democracy, but I am not foolish enough to believe that it always delivers the right outcome or even…

The rapid expansion of the academies programme in 2010 has had a significant effect on our school system with the inevitable knock on effect of many strands of accountability and regulation that are in place and seemingly with even more on the horizon, writes Nick MacKenzie.

‘We are losing our shared space’, someone in the office said the other day. Certainly the idea of compromise and living with and accepting difference seems to be disappearing from political life – from life – at an alarming rate of knots. At a national level and at a local level.…